c2p-cmd/Good-Quotes-Authors huggingface dataset:
"I remember when I was coming up, the music stores where you could get guitar strings was where I got my records from. Now the place where you get your records from is where you can get your DJ mats and your mixers." — Jam Master Jay
"It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!" — May Sarton
"Gossip is nature's telephone." — Sholom Aleichem
"Poor David Hume is dying fast, but with more real cheerfulness and good humor and with more real resignation to the necessary course of things, than any whining Christian ever dyed with pretended resignation to the will of God." — Adam Smith
"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going." — J. B. Priestley
"American movies and music deliver themes of freedom, innocence, and power that appeal to others - partly because America itself was put together out of a multiplicity of national traditions." — Todd Gitlin
"You need to find somebody who will speak the same language. We understand that we couldn't have any kind of discussion without permission, without a legal framework behind it." — Anatoly Chubais
"If you respect the audience enough, they can take onboard many things." — Nick Park
"If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me." — William Shakespeare
"Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was." — Ben Vereen
"I think there's a suspicion in the South of people putting on airs. You see it in most successful Southern politicians, but you also see it in someone like Richard Petty, who may be a multimillionaire stock car driver, but he's also beloved because he has a nice self-deprecatory way about him." — John Shelton Reed
"We must join with the tens of millions all over the world who see in peace our most sacred responsibility." — Paul Robeson
"When you're a child, no matter if you're doing show business or sports or school or anything, you just want to make the adults happy." — Anna Chlumsky
"We are stymied by regulations, limited choice and the threat of litigation. Neither consultants nor industry itself provide research which takes architecture forward." — Arthur Erickson
"The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity." — Paul Theroux
"Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one." — Gary Ackerman
"It sounds cliche, but success is your friends, your family, what you do, and if you're happy when you wake up." — Michael Pitt
"The only politics in this country that's relevant to black people today is the politics of revolution... none other." — H. Rap Brown
"I've done my best to work from a place of humility - always looking over your shoulder saying, 'Does this suck?' and I think that's a good way to work. The other way to work is where you start to think, 'I'm on fire, I'm amazing!' and I don't think that's the way to work." — David O. Russell
"Well, you know, a lot of people look at the negative things, the things that they did wrong and - which I do. But I like to stress on the things I did right, because there are certain things that I like to look at from a positive standpoint that are just positive reinforcement." — Tiger Woods
"It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more." — Herman Hesse
"My parents owned a soul food diner. It inspired me to go to culinary school." — Flavor Flav
"His lordship may compel us to be equal upstairs, but there will never be equality in the servants hall." — James M. Barrie
"It can have a secular purpose and have a relationship to God because God was presumed to be both over the state and the church, and separation of church and state was never meant to separate God from government." — Roy Moore
"I don't put anything in front of taking ski racing and sports seriously." — Bode Miller
"To me, the job of the artist is to provide a useful and intelligent vocabulary for the world to be able to articulate feelings they experience everyday, and otherwise wouldn't have the means to express in a meaningful and useful way." — Mos Def
"The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion." — Blaise Pascal
"And I want to do it the right way, like everybody else, not just a famous figurehead that gets a job because he is a famous basketball player. I want to really learn the business." — Shaquille O'Neal
"I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life." — J. K. Rowling
"Israel can't make peace without the clear support of the United States." — Alan Dershowitz
"A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness." — Bryant H. McGill
"I love people, and I love to be with people and to make music with people, but my natural state is to revert back to being by myself in my house, which is cool because that's where I practice and write and listen and study." — Esperanza Spalding
"It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell." — William Tecumseh Sherman
"It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise." — Henry A. Kissinger
"Pink Floyd is like a marriage that's on a permanent trial separation." — Rick Wright
"Whether you be man or woman you will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor." — James Lane Allen
"I trust that the president will try, just give it one more shot, some revolutionary way of not doing this, of bringing all those kids back home safely." — F. Murray Abraham
"I could really use a corporate sponsor. People think that because you're in the movies, you're rich. I have allocated all my resources to Shambala so the animals will always be safe." — Tippi Hedren
"Not necessity, not desire - no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything - health, food, a place to live, entertainment - they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied." — Friedrich Nietzsche
"Barack Obama's life was so much simpler in 2009. Back then, he had refined the cold act of blaming others for the bad economy into an art form. Deficits? Blame Bush's tax cuts. Spending? Blame the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. No business investment? Blame Wall Street." — John Sununu
"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge." — Albert Einstein
"Parents, it seems, have an almost Olympian persistence when it comes to suggesting more secure and lucrative lines of work for their children who have the notion that writing is an actual profession. I say this from experience." — Susan Orlean
"Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients." — Mario Batali
"I have never come across a technology that doesn't change. This is inevitable. You have to adapt your systems as technology develops." — Gijs de Vries
"When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman." — Joseph Wood Krutch
"What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually." — Vaclav Havel
"Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability." — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
"Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them." — E. W. Howe
"Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life." — Berthold Auerbach
"The environment doesn't change that radically. You are still going to go home at night and NBC is going to be there, ABC and CBS will still be there." — Dick Wolf
"Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners." — Laurence Sterne
"We lament the speed of our society and the lack of depth and the nature of disposable information." — David Ogden Stiers
"The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of." — John Irving
"War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength." — George Orwell
"I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy." — Giacomo Casanova
"There is no time for cut-and-dried monotony. There is time for work. And time for love. That leaves no other time!" — Coco Chanel
"You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition." — Maya Lin
"When I do a 30-minute meal, for instance, on Food Network, that's my food you see at the end of the show and it's not perfect. And if sometimes things break or drop or the pasta hits the wall when I'm draining it, they never stop tape. They just kind of let me go with it." — Rachael Ray
"If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down." — Debra Winger
"Here's the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. That's their life. Whether you like it or not, I don't care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually it's all coming out of the box." — Greg Kinnear
"You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily." — Tori Amos
"We now accept the fact that learning is a lifelong process of keeping abreast of change. And the most pressing task is to teach people how to learn." — Peter Drucker
"I can change a tire, but I couldn't change a fuse on the computer panel on my car." — Mike O'Malley
"We expert teachers know that motivation and emotional impact are what matter." — Donald Norman
"I have realized that I hate going to the premieres of the movies that I'm in. Because I feel this tension after the movie is over that everyone feels obligated to say something nice to you. It's so unnatural and uncomfortable." — Amanda Seyfried
"I've said it before, but it's absolutely true: My mother gave me my drive, but my father gave me my dreams. Thanks to him, I could see a future." — Liza Minnelli
"Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness." — David Sarnoff
"Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating. But I carried that with me for the rest of my life." — Vera Wang
"I don't play pyrotechnic scales. I play about frustration, patience, anger. Music is an extension of my soul." — Dick Dale
"I hope that my investment into Atomico will become my best financial investment to date." — Niklas Zennstrom
"When trust improves, the mood improves." — Fernando Flores
"One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant." — John Locke
"The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination." — Alexander Cockburn
"I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married." — Burt Lancaster
"We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace." — William E. Gladstone
"Whether one agrees or disagrees with the tactics of the Occupy Wall Street movement, it's easy to understand the inspiration for its anger as well as its impatience." — Eric Alterman
"All that I know I learned after I was thirty." — Georges Clemenceau
"That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine." — Charles Babbage
"And if we must educate our poets and artists in science, we must educate our masters, labour and capital, in art." — John B. S. Haldane
"On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone." — Janis Joplin
"I always had a really natural faith as a kid. Where I knew God existed and it felt very free and pretty wild and natural, and it wasn't religious." — Bear Grylls
"Never ever discount the idea of marriage. Sure, someone might tell you that marriage is just a piece of paper. Well, so is money, and what's more life-affirming than cold, hard cash?" — Dennis Miller
"I'm noticing a new approach to art making in recent museum and gallery shows. It flickered into focus at the New Museum's 'Younger Than Jesus' last year and ran through the Whitney Biennial, and I'm seeing it blossom and bear fruit at 'Greater New York,' MoMA P.S. 1's twice-a-decade extravaganza of emerging local talent." — Jerry Saltz
"Because I have work to care about, it is possible that I may be less difficult to get along with than other women when the double chins start to form." — Gloria Steinem
"You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.'" — Jerry Seinfeld
"Religion which requires persecution to sustain, it is of the devil's propagation." — Hosea Ballou
"When I get in the car I love my wife and kids more than anything, but I'm not thinking about that side of things. I'm thinking about the car, I'm thinking about the race and I'm thinking about how to make the car faster." — Scott Dixon
"Healthy people are those who live in healthy homes on a healthy diet in an environment equally fit for birth, growth work, healing, and dying... Healthy people need no bureaucratic interference to mate, give birth, share the human condition and die." — Ivan Illich
"Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order." — Virginia Woolf
"Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing." — Thomas A. Edison
"We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year." — Walt Disney
"I know people will think it's funny because I've done glamour modelling in the past, but I felt embarrassed about my body and just wanted to cover it up." — Jennifer Ellison
"It is the creative potential itself in human beings that is the image of God." — Mary Daly
"The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value." — Irving Fisher
"It's not that I don't believe in miracles, but I never quite trust that they're real." — Mariel Hemingway
"I'm famous today. People like me today. Might not like me tomorrow. You can't count on it." — Dave Chappelle
"The freedom to fail is vital if you're going to succeed. Most successful people fail from time to time, and it is a measure of their strength that failure merely propels them into some new attempt at success." — Michael Korda
"A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty." — David Hume
"Narrative art, the novel, from Murasaki to Proust, has produced great works of poetry." — Eugenio Montale
"Courage is fear holding on a minute longer." — George S. Patton
"Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all." — Harry Seidler
"In a repressive society, a writer can be deeply influential, but in a society that's filled with glut and repetition and endless consumption, the act of terror may be the only meaningful act." — Don DeLillo
"Rather than saying, 'My checking account is a wreck,' change it to 'I will learn how to track my spending and balance my checkbook.'" — Suze Orman
"This crisis exposed very significant problems in the financial systems of the United States and some other major economies. Innovation got too far out in front of the knowledge of risk." — Timothy Geithner
"One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness." — Gustave Flaubert
"As a culture I see us as presently deprived of subtleties. The music is loud, the anger is elevated, sex seems lacking in sweetness and privacy." — Shelley Berman
"All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory they have no power over the substance of original justice." — Edmund Burke
"I was home-schooled. But going to high school, I never would've been able to travel the U.S. or been able to do acting." — Ethan Embry
"I believe that it is irresponsible, it is basically part of the crisis of leadership in D.C. to not look at Social Security and understand that there has got to be a solution posed. We've got to take a look at it and make sure that we create a solution so our seniors aren't left out in the cold." — Joe Miller
"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all." — Dale Carnegie
"We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it would work under every scenario." — Ron Chernow
"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher." — Socrates
"Whoever incites anger has a strong insurance against indifference." — Philip Stanhope
"Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life." — Ludwig van Beethoven
"Courage, not compromise, brings the smile of God's approval." — Thomas S. Monson
"If you don't do your part, don't blame God." — Billy Sunday
"Man, after all my grandma put into me learning the piano, that was a hard day, telling her I was telling jokes for a living." — Jamie Foxx
"I do not like being famous. I like being normal." — Vince Gill
"Beauty is as relative as light and dark. Thus, there exists no beautiful woman, none at all, because you are never certain that a still far more beautiful woman will not appear and completely shame the supposed beauty of the first." — Paul Klee
"No event in American history is more misunderstood than the Vietnam War. It was misreported then, and it is misremembered now." — Richard M. Nixon
"My mom taught me to go after my dreams. I have this faith in myself that I must have gotten from her." — Amy Jo Johnson
"Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day." — Brendan Francis
"I'm into all that sappy stuff - a surprise picnic, nice dinner, or traveling. I'm kind of an old romantic." — Will Estes
"I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior." — Bill Cosby
"Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go." — Truman Capote
"If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand." — Milton Friedman
"The absolute transformation of everything that we ever thought about music will take place within 10 years, and nothing is going to be able to stop it. I see absolutely no point in pretending that it's not going to happen. I'm fully confident that copyright, for instance, will no longer exist in 10 years." — David Bowie
"Designing a house is like doing a movie: Once you're done, you want to say, 'I hope you all enjoy it.'" — Jennifer Aniston
"Failure is impossible." — Susan B. Anthony
"Success is never final, but failure can be." — Bill Parcells
"Music is a part of my life all the time - on the plane, before matches, driving out to the court." — Maria Sharapova
"Even in the centuries which appear to us to be the most monstrous and foolish, the immortal appetite for beauty has always found satisfaction." — Charles Baudelaire
"America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered." — Louis D. Brandeis
"Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading." — Igor Stravinsky
"Film in the 20th century, it's the American art form, like jazz." — Martin Scorsese
"Rich men's houses are seldom beautiful, rarely comfortable, and never original. It is a constant source of surprise to people of moderate means to observe how little a big fortune contributes to Beauty." — Margot Asquith
"Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion." — Ben Quayle
"Politics is not predictions and politics is not observations. Politics is what we do. Politics is what we do, politics is what we create, by what we work for, by what we hope for and what we dare to imagine." — Paul Wellstone
"My wife Elizabeth and I started The Really Terrible Orchestra for people like us who are pretty hopeless musicians who would like to play in an orchestra. It has been a great success. We give performances we've become the most famous bad orchestra in the world." — Alexander McCall Smith
"I wear my wedding ring. We talk about when we're going to get married again, which we hope is going to take place some time in this incredibly hectic calendar year." — Jim Lampley
"In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained." — James H. Breasted
"Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now." — Shaun White
"Inauthenticity is endemic in American politics today. The political backrooms where I spent much of my career were just as benighted as my personal life, equally crowded with shadowy strangers and compromises, truths I hoped to deny. I lived not in one closet but in many." — James McGreevey
"Men who consistently leave the toilet seat up secretly want women to get up to go the bathroom in the middle of the night and fall in." — Rita Rudner
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning." — Bill Gates
"The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world." — Rob Corddry
"There are times, like after a long day of work, when the thought of an easy drive-through is enticing. But then I remember how crappy I felt when I ate fast food in the past, and it inspires me to head to the grocery store or my local farmer's market and whip up an easy but healthier option." — Alison Sweeney
"It was seldom that I attended any religious meetings, as my parents had not much faith in and were never so unfortunate as to unite themselves with any of the religious sects." — Orson Pratt
"Active Evil is better than Passive Good." — William Blake
"When first starting to work with someone you try to get them in the same mindset that you were in when you were successful, and I realized the best thing you can ever do is realize that they are not you. They have a different persona and mindset, and you have to figure out what works best within your communication with that athlete." — Dan O'Brien
"Film is an illusion. Fame is ephemeral. Faith and family are what endure." — Emilio Estevez
"Television is where the best work for women is right now. I would love to do more movies, but the reality is women have many more opportunities on television to play a greater variety of characters." — Julie Bowen
"I can write pretty much anywhere if you give me time and some quiet. The home is not usually the best place because I have four children. It's usually pandemonium around here!" — Harlan Coben
"First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, 'I believe,' three times." — Ovid
"My marriage to my husband, Bart Conner in 1996 is my proudest personal moment." — Nadia Comaneci
"But my mom was a pianist, and she taught piano out of her house. I was just so excited, being a little kid and having all these other kids come to my house twice a week. I thought it was a big party." — Vanessa Carlton
"Only after I faced the unhappiness of my first marriage did I start on the path of personal growth." — Judith Wright
"Some people think technology has the answers." — Kevin Mitnick
"The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read With loads of learned lumber in his head." — Alexander Pope
"France is a place where the money falls apart in your hands but you can't tear the toilet paper." — Billy Wilder
"I hope to be an actor and never retire." — Dominic Monaghan
"If you think you have it tough, read history books." — Bill Maher
"Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends." — Kim Kardashian
"I spent a lot of my life holding back my cries, and I want to change that because it's not good for me." — Shania Twain
"I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work." — Louis C. K.
"God had brought me to my knees and made me acknowledge my own nothingness, and out of that knowledge I had been reborn. I was no longer the centre of my life and therefore I could see God in everything." — Bede Griffiths
"Gay writers now have both a sense of history and the fables that allows them to dwell in the realms of the ridiculous and at the same time talk seriously about things." — Tony Kushner
"All of the women on The Apprentice flirted with me - consciously or unconsciously. That's to be expected." — Donald Trump
"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." — Albert Einstein
"I appreciate and enjoy my age." — Nikki Giovanni
"When you gain 50 pounds during pregnancy like I did, you fear that you'll never get back in shape." — Charisma Carpenter
"For families across the UK who are income-poor, but more than that, whose lives are blighted by worklessness, educational failure, family breakdown, problem debt and poor health, as well as other problems, giving them an extra pound - say through increased benefits - will not address the reason they find themselves in difficulty in the first place." — Iain Duncan Smith
"We're not trying to change the world just music." — Jonathan Davis
"There is something at work that's bigger than us. It's about having a trust in life and being at peace that things are happening the way they should. You do what you do as well as you can do it, and then you don't worry or agonize about the outcome." — Sherilyn Fenn
"I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question." — Harri Holkeri
"For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all." — Aristotle
"I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday." — Estella Warren
"Staying married may have long-term benefits. You can elicit much more sympathy from friends over a bad marriage than you ever can from a good divorce." — P. J. O'Rourke
"When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories." — Danica McKellar
"Acting is a question of absorbing other people's personalities and adding some of your own experience." — Jean-Paul Sartre
"Personality is the most important thing to an actress's success." — Mae West
"Unless a reviewer has the courage to give you unqualified praise, I say ignore the bastard." — John Steinbeck
"Knowledge about life is one thing effective occupation of a place in life, with its dynamic currents passing through your being, is another." — William James
"People intoxicate themselves with work so they won't see how they really are." — Aldous Huxley
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments." — George Washington
"I am accusing him of stealing my best material, he was a very funny man." — Frank Carson
"There's obviously nothing wrong with selling your art - only an idiot with a trust fund would tell you otherwise. But it's confusing to know how far you should take it." — Banksy
"All this fashion stuff - who's cool now - is just a bigger version of the cool kids versus the nerds." — Beth Ditto
"The world's most famous and popular language is music." — PSY
"And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything." — William Shakespeare
"Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought." — William L. Jenkins
"In order to effect great change, we need to look at how we can help those in our own communities as well as globally." — Christina Aguilera
"If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place." — Robert Schumann
"Some songs you get. Some songs you may not. And I think that's the beauty of art: to question and to ask, to understand the deeper meaning after two or three or four listenings." — Janelle Monae
"So when I was 13, I basically left home and never returned and lived at home again. I would come home for a week at Christmas and two weeks in the summer only." — Peter Jurasik
"As a child I was very involved with sports and I knew at age 9 that I wanted to be an Olympic champion." — Marion Jones
"We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish." — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
"Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal to your tasks." — Phillips Brooks
"But with the steady disintegration of the family in modern society over the last century, the role of the school in bridging the gap has become vital!" — Stephen Covey
"I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy." — Edith Sitwell
"They got married, they got divorced, and half their money goes out the window." — Suze Orman
"If you want to know the taste of a pear, you must change the pear by eating it yourself. If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution. All genuine knowledge originates in direct experience." — Mao Zedong
"Taxation is the price we pay for failing to build a civilized society. The higher the tax level, the greater the failure. A centrally planned totalitarian state represents a complete defeat for the civilized world, while a totally voluntary society represents its ultimate success." — Mark Skousen
"I'm one of the slowest drivers on the road. I mosey along. If you're doing anything too fast, including living life too fast, that creates sudden death. If I have to be somewhere on time, I make sure I leave early enough." — Anthony Hopkins
"There has to be chemistry in a duet, but if you go beyond the point of friendship and attraction, you lose something." — Kenny Rogers
"If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business." — B. C. Forbes
"America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken." — Mike Ferguson
"I think you can have moderate success by copying something else, but if you really want to knock it out of the park, you have to do something different and take chances." — Lee Ann Womack
"Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them." — Dalai Lama
"Personally, I think four is the perfect number of children for our particular family. Four is enough to create the frenzied cacophony that my husband and I find so joyful." — Ayelet Waldman
"I've rarely kept my distance from kind of - I don't know if we can call it politics, but kind of, civic engagement and that kind of thing, except I tended to think, 'Well, do it yourself before you start telling other people what they should be doing.'" — David Byrne
"I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed." — John Hench
"Why shouldn't rap be esoteric, able to take in current events, history and criticism? I guess it's this old idea of containment - that rappers, because they're black, can't and shouldn't aspire to look outside the ghetto for influence." — Saul Williams
"It felt like the first thing, but when I first started out, I got a job adapting a book by Russell Banks called 'Rule Of The Bone.' I didn't do a very good job. I didn't really know what I was doing in general, let alone how to adapt a book." — Paul Thomas Anderson
"In chess one cannot control everything. Sometimes a game takes an unexpected turn, in which beauty begins to emerge. Both players are always instrumental in this." — Vladimir Kramnik
"The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high." — Iain Duncan Smith
"Everyone can identify with a fragrant garden, with beauty of sunset, with the quiet of nature, with a warm and cozy cottage." — Thomas Kincade
"If we had 3 million exhibitionists and only one voyeur, nobody could make any money." — Albert Brooks
"Don't forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it." — Blaise Pascal
"The purpose of thinking about the future is not to predict it but to raise people's hopes." — Freeman Dyson
"A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer." — Bruce Lee
"You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility." — Stevie Nicks
"My face has changed with the years and has enough history in it to give audiences something to work with." — Jeanne Moreau
"Any man may be in good spirits and good temper when he's well dressed. There ain't much credit in that." — Charles Dickens
"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear." — Horace Mann
"There is nothing more requisite in business than despatch." — Joseph Addison
"Right now, we have the most complex relationship with technology that we've ever had. Your regular person has more technology in their life now than the whole world had 100 years ago." — Daniel H. Wilson
"You know, my dad served in the President's Cabinet after his time as a governor. He told me he enjoyed being governor a lot more. Now, I understand why. If I do my job well, I can make a difference in people's lives and I can help our children realize their dreams." — Mitt Romney
"I wrote the song For A Dancer for a friend of mine who died in a fire. He was in the sauna in a house that burned down, so he had no idea anything was going on. It was very sad." — Jackson Browne
"Let me be a free man - free to travel, free to stop, free to work." — Chief Joseph
"The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him, burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men." — Gilbert K. Chesterton
"Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on." — Robert Frost
"My one thing is I continue to be interested and want to be a student. I don't want to be a master. When I'm learning something, I'm in my element." — Chick Corea
"Money is the worst currency that ever grew among mankind. This sacks cities, this drives men from their homes, this teaches and corrupts the worthiest minds to turn base deeds." — Sophocles
"A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value." — Isaac Asimov
"No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned." — Franklin D. Roosevelt
"Where would you be without friends? The people to pick you up when you need lifting? We come from homes far from perfect, so you end up almost parent and sibling to your friends - your own chosen family. There's nothing like a really loyal, dependable, good friend. Nothing." — Jennifer Aniston
"Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with." — Ricky Williams
"Obsessed by a fairy tale, we spend our lives searching for a magic door and a lost kingdom of peace." — Eugene O'Neill
"The body is an amazing machine... If you eat the right things your body will perform incredibly well!" — Shawn Johnson
"My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction." — Melissa Gilbert
"I always said punk was an attitude. It was never about having a Mohican haircut or wearing a ripped T-shirt. It was all about destruction, and the creative potential within that." — Malcolm Mclaren
"A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could." — William Hazlitt
"The family is the school of duties - founded on love." — Felix Adler
"We are not really privy to all that crazy stuff that goes on in the show. I go to work, eat, and talk about food. The wild things happen when we aren't around. I expected Top Chef to last three or four seasons and we are now shooting season ten." — Tom Colicchio
"Just put down 9/11... I think, on most things I'm liberal, except on defending ourselves and keeping half the money. Those things I'm kind of conservative on." — Dennis Miller
"My greatest desire is that the hope that has overcome fear in my country will help vanquish it around the world." — Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva
"The thing about drugs and sex is that you lose all your inhibitions. I've had sex in trains, planes, wine bars... and quite a few car parks!" — Robbie Williams
"And I love Mel Brooks. My Dad loved his movies, too, they're awesome, the kind of thing that if you're in for ten minutes, you're in for two hours." — Mike Myers
"Movies such as 'Mr. Smith Goes to Washington' in 1939 to 'Dave' in 1993 portray Washington leaders as the ultimate Everymen - decent people just like you and me, only thrust onto greatness." — Ron Fournier
"A retired teacher paid $62,000 towards her pension and nothing, yes nothing, for full family medical, dental and vision coverage over her entire career. What will we pay her? $1.4 million in pension benefits and another $215,000 in health care benefit premiums over her lifetime." — Chris Christie
"When men hear women want a commitment, they think it means commitment to a romantic relationship, but that's not it. It's a commitment to not floating around anymore. I want a guy who is entrenched in his own life. Entrenched is awesome." — Mindy Kaling
"Growing up I always shopped at Victoria's Secret with my mom and saw Angels like Gisele and Karolina Kurkova in the windows." — Lindsay Ellingson
"Technology makes the world a new place." — Shoshana Zuboff
"The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them." — Joseph Addison
"The whole world loves American movies, blue jeans, jazz and rock and roll. It is probably a better way to get to know our country than by what politicians or airline commercials represent." — Billy Joel
"In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts." — Peter McWilliams
"As a younger actor you want to be approved of, you want to gain respect, be admired. All of those things. To say: 'This is me playing this character. And aren't I fantastic!' I don't feel that so much now." — Kristin Scott Thomas
"Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention." — Molly Ivins
"I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully." — Jo Brand
"President Obama is the most successful food stamp president in American history. I would like to be the most successful paycheck president in American history." — Newt Gingrich
"What saddens me is the corruption of youth and beauty, and the loss of soul, which is only replaced by money." — Lisa Bonet
"When did the future switch from being a promise to a threat?" — Chuck Palahniuk
"I think what's fascinating is how many people are playing in politics who maybe haven't played before." — Carly Fiorina
"I shall never believe that God plays dice with the world." — Albert Einstein
"The thing I love most about going on vacation is that I get to leave behind any kind of schedule. My entire life is scheduled from morning to night, and when I'm on vacation, there is no schedule." — Kelly Clarkson
"It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to keep it." — Willy Brandt
"There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface." — Arianna Huffington
"It's communication - that's what theatre is all about." — Chita Rivera
"People feel that the EU is a one-way process, a great machine that sucks up decision-making from national parliaments to the European level until everything is decided by the EU. That needs to change." — William Hague
"Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance." — Carl Sandburg
"A lot of people do not muster the courage to live their dreams because they are afraid to die." — Les Brown
"We are not just here to manage capitalism but to change society and to define its finer values." — Tony Benn
"Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts." — Marian Wright Edelman
"Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life." — Robin Hayes
"I not only wanted to showcase lyrical skills but also continue to drop knowledge on the hiphop community. I'm looking to elevate through my music, and through my music I educate." — Talib Kweli
"Low levels of vitamin D in the population as a whole suggest that most people need to take a vitamin D supplement. This may be especially true for seniors, as the ability to synthesize vitamin D in the skin declines with age." — Andrew Weil
"Liberalism is a really old British tradition and it has a completely different attitude towards the individual and the relationship between the individual and the state than the collectivist response of Labour, and particularly Old Labour, does." — Nick Clegg
"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." — Bill Gates
"If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character." — Matthew Simpson
"It would be a pity if, frustrated by the price of travel, we elected to become a society that never made contact, that never gave SETI a fair chance." — Barney Oliver
"Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away." — Elvis Presley
"Unity is strength... when there is teamwork and collaboration, wonderful things can be achieved." — Mattie Stepanek
"I was serious about ballet for a long time, but my mom got me into tap and jazz and modern and hip-hop, and I was one of those over-lessoned children." — Greta Gerwig
"Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency." — Aesop
"We didn't have a whole lot of money when I was growing up either. I would always ask for magic books or magic tricks for my birthday or for Christmas and the rest of the year I either had to mow lawns or find part time jobs to help supplement the cost of doing magic." — Lance Burton
"I've just been learning how to direct my own videos, choreography, doing costumes... every creative opportunity there is with my music I've taken." — Santigold
"Art is permitted to survive only if it renounces the right to be different, and integrates itself into the omnipotent realm of the profane." — Theodor Adorno
"I have a huge breakfast every morning because I never know if I'll have time for lunch, especially during Fashion Week. It keeps my mood positive all day. And my parents taught me to have tons of fruit and vegetables, which I think helps my skin." — Constance Jablonski
"All men by nature desire knowledge." — Aristotle
"The families of many athletes - incensed at the sports leagues and hoping to make games safer overall - are increasingly making the brains of players who die prematurely and suspiciously available for study. Some athletes are even making the bequest themselves." — Jeffrey Kluger
"God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools." — John Muir
"Growing up, I wanted desperately to please, to be a good girl." — Claire Danes
"I think my father would have liked to have been an artist, actually. But I think he didn't quite have perhaps the drive or, I don't know, I mean he had a family to bring up I suppose." — David Hockney
"A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing." — W. Somerset Maugham
"While also, importantly, not wanting to dumb it down or pretend the days of 'difficult' poetry are over, because we live in a pluralist culture and there's room for 'difficult' poetry alongside rap and everything else. And poetry won't be for everyone, but everyone should have the choice." — Andrew Motion
"I'm one of five kids and we lived on a massive farm in New South Wales with my mum and dad." — Abbie Cornish
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough." — Alfred Eisenstaedt
"The blood jet is poetry and there is no stopping it." — Sylvia Plath
"I don't know if anybody wants to mix their politics with their entertainment." — Fiona Apple
"I'm social and I meet people and talk to people but I'm not looking for the ideal person to fit my mold and to raise my family with yet. I'm just kind of doing my thing and learning from the people I'm around and who I cross paths with." — Picabo Street